Category Archives: FOSLS

Friends of Slaithwaite Station

Slaithwaite Community celebrates the station it got reopened

[comment in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 14th December 2012] IN 1968 it looked like the end of the line for Slaithwaite station. The Colne Valley village had had a railway station since 1849. Its opening, on the old London and … Continue reading

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30 years of Slaithwaite station – Saturday 15th December

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Slaithwaite Station 30th anniversary – request for memorabilia

  STRAINS of Happy Birthday To You could echo across the platform at Slaithwaite Station next month. The original station was shut down in 1968 as the country’s rail network was slashed under the Beeching Axe, but, after public pressure, … Continue reading

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Ale trail public meeting, Wednesday 19th September

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